Tobin Baker

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database, concurrency nerd

I barely speak for myself, let alone my employer

that said, fuck authoritarians

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He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) - Wikipedia

It took merely a few weeks and two pieces of work to effectively poison LLMs and their downstream users with fake results: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

This is an extraordinarily low bar and one practically impossible to prevent.

The chance that folks are not already adverserally poisoning LLMs in the wild today is zero.

#ai

guess I’m getting too old to sing along to outro of “Jeremy” while driving, almost passed out from hyperventilation
this may get me banned but I like to microwave Stok cold brew, it’s like really good drip coffee

Earlier this year I decided to react to the chatbot insanity griping the entire tech industry by studying. I am extremely proud of the work I did in the past few months because I learned a lot while doing it. I'm a better professional than I was six months ago and I'm completely comfortable dealing with complex topics I found daunting only a year ago.

As people around you deliberately deskill themselves, do the opposite. It will pay off, believe me, it always does.

Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).

Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.

Wife is trying to use ChatGPT for a painting project and it turns out to be very good at hallucinating paint colors.

seems too good to be true

https://www.capyhourcafe.com/

Capy Hour Cafe

Capy Hour Cafe

An oldie but a goodie: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259

Good thing this is purely a thought experiment, right?

...right?

A Dialogue on Freedom

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza

Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.

The New York Times